(According to recent polling, Hamas is gaining support among Palestinians and Bibi and Likud would lose to both Gantz and Naftali Bennett if this conflict ended today and snap elections were held tomorrow.)
from Reuters
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right wing Likud party has reduced the gap behind the centrist party of former minister Benny Gantz, who quit the wartime unity government on Sunday, two polls showed on Friday.
The
polls, for the left wing Ma'ariv daily and the right wing Israel Hayom
newspaper, showed Likud winning 21 seats behind the National Unity Party
on 24. The Ma'ariv poll last week showed Gantz's party on 27 seats,
while at the start of the year, it was regularly polling in the high
30s.
The
Ma'ariv poll shows the current ruling coalition winning 52 seats in the
120-seat Knesset, against 58 for the main opposition parties, with the
balance of 10 seats held by the United Arab List and the left-wing
Hadash-Ta'al alliance.
The Israel Hayom poll put the coalition on 50 seats against 61 for the opposition parties and 9 for the UAL and Hadash-Ta'al.
Both
polls showed a majority of voters would prefer Gantz as prime minister
in a head-to-head choice with Netanyahu. However the Israel Hayom poll
showed that if former prime minister Naftali Bennett were to join forces
with Avigdor Liberman and Gideon Saar, two other centre right
politicians from outside the Likud camp, their alliance could beat both
Likud and Gantz's National Unity Party...
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